Henry Payne for September 20, 2015

Truth

Wait, you blame the corporate greed that allowed the loosening of protection laws on the unions? Wow, do you live in an Alice in Wonderland world. Now you are going to tell us that it is the unions’ fault that USA firms producing products overseas have to pay no taxes? Or, wait, it is the people’s fault that corporations pay a lower actual tax than real people?

Oh, those horrid environmental regs. God forbid your kids should breathe cleaner air than you.

What Congress ignores, or has forgotten, is that the United States is PEOPLE, not corporations. PEOPLE, not business. PEOPLE, not Wall Street.

God forbid corporations pay their workers a decent amount. Let’s get rid of the minimum wage do we can compete with Mexico, by paying Americans 50 cents an hour. Then you’ll really see our economy take off!

I worry more about robotics and automation. I worked on an automated auto part system that replaced 3000 + manual labor jobs with a dozen people to feed parts to the machinery and pack the finished goods to be shipped.

" …The management consulting firm projected that to rise to about 25 percent of such ‘automatable’ tasks by 2025.In turn, labor costs stand to drop by 16 percent on average globally over that time, according to the research.The shift will mean an increasing demand for skilled workers who can operate the machines, said Hal Sirkin, a senior partner at Boston Consulting….…Certain countries also are expected to be more briskadopters. China, the United States, Japan, Germany and SouthKorea now account for about 80 percent of robot purchases and are expected to maintain that share over the next decade"http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2946704/Cheaper-robots-replace-factory-workers-study.htmlIt will very soon be easier and less expensive to produce, for example, engines where they’re consumed using additive technology than having them shipped from another country. http://www.gereports.com/post/118394013625/these-engineers-3d-printed-a-mini-jet-engine-then

I suppose Henry thinks that the average U.S. worker, who is taxed to support a huge military, state and municipal taxes, insurance of all kinds, high energy & utilities bills, should not make a decent salary/hourly wage? And, while he’s at it, let the land we live on, the air we breathe, the water we drink and grow our food with; let them get polluted! Where do YOU live, Henry? Cayman Islands?

American assembled cars, KIA, Mazda, BMW, Toyota, Honda, located in low income/COL states so low wages seem fine, are the problem as our old “Big Three” of Ford, GM, and Chrysler, have shipped jobs to Canada and Mexico, for decades.

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My grandfather worked and died in a non-unionized mine. One thing unions did was improve on-the-job safety.

If you really want a government that will work for the interests of all Americans, you’d better do everything you can to get Bernie Sanders elected.

That’s why we used to have tariffs — so overseas sweatshops couldn’t be used to undermine the fair wages and reasonable needs to American workers..But we fixed it.

denis1112 said, 3 days ago“I helped move two GM plants to Mexico back in 1989-90.The lefty news nerds didn’t seem to care back then either.The democrat way,tax,fee,fine,and regulate the jobs right out of the country and blame some one else.”Thank you for your American patriotism in moving plants out of the U.S.A. Did it pay well?